The famous Parisian museum announced the Mona Lisa is moving into her own gallery. The change will actually help visitors ...

Akkadian and Assyrian civilisations and their move from pictograph to cuneiform scripts. “Last year, we introduced the study of cuneiform, Avesta, Persian and Brahmi as part of the fourth ...

Whether created by ancient Egyptian scribes, medieval monks, or Mayan priests, these 26 remarkable survivors have endured ...

In the dusty lowlands of ancient Mesopotamia, between the winding rivers of the Tigris and Euphrates in what is now Iraq, Sumerian civilisation rose, not only on the back of agriculture, but ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

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Writing and trade have an inseparable history. Some of the oldest surviving examples of written language are stocktakes and ledgers recorded in the ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform script. Since copper ...

For thousands of years, it was home to feuding tribes who called themselves the Luwians, according to cuneiform tablets ... were classic examples of ancient drywall masonry, but where Greeks ...

you should have deciphered an undeciphered script, like Jean-François Champollion (the founder of Egyptology, who decoded the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs), Henry Rawlinson (who gave us the key to ...

Act, Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company’s closing production for its 61st season, will be a landmark event. It marks the final show ...

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